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Rudeness is merely the expression of fear. People fear they won’t get what they want. The most dreadful and unattractive person only needs to be loved and they will open up like a flower.

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Are you okay on, like, life? Yeah. Yeah. I just haven’t eaten. Oh, let me make you something. No, I can’t. I can’t let you do that. What are you talking about? There’s… What-what do you want? An omelet? Yeah, I can make you an omelet. Yeah? Yeah. Go wait in the office. Thank you.

THE BEAR
— 2.09 “Omelette”

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Manuscript of Bram Stoker's Dracula playscript (1897)

The script for the theatre version of Dracula is a curious mixture of Bram Stoker’s own handwriting and printed extracts cut and pasted from the novel.

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Women have minds and they have souls as well as just hearts. They’ve got ambition and they’ve got talent as well as just beauty. I am so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I’m so sick of it! But — I am so lonely.

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “A Writer’s Diary”
Clarice Lispector, from “A Breath of Life”
Patti Smith, from “Devotion”
Elena Ferrante, from “Incidental Inventions”
Marguerite Duras, from “Écrire”

Jane Austen’s writing table at Chawton Cottage, Hampshire
Charlotte Brontë’s writing desk on display at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, England
Virginia Woolf’s writing desk in her writing lodge at Monk’s House in Rodmell, Sussex
Reconstruction of Daphne du Maurier’s study at the Smugglers Museum, Jamaica Inn, Cornwall